Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. 

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. 

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.